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if you're only ever gonna read one single text in philosophy of mathematics, let it be:
Student: Sir, what is a mathematical proof? Ideal Mathematician: You don't know that? What year are you in? Student: Third-year graduate...
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As for [the] ubiquitous presence of mathematics, nominalists have their own explanations in the spirit of Kant - what we consistently find...
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Any formal system for encoding mathematics, be it ZFC, ETCS, or type theory, must by its nature be careful about many things that mathematic...
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From my French friends I heard that the tendency towards super-abstract generalizations is their traditional national trait. I do not enti...
see also: John 18:38
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